Digital Signature Certificate

What is a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC)?

A Digital Signature Certificate is the equivalent of a physical signature in electronic format, Digital Signature of the applicant establishes the identity of the sender of an electronic document on the Internet. These can be of two types class 2 digital signature certificate and class 3 digital signature certificate.

Uses of Digital Signature Certificate:

DSC for Income tax return filing.

DSC for filing forms required to be filed under Companies Act and LLP Act.

DSC for filing forms with ROC for Company and LLP registration.

DSC for various transactions with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA).

DSC for filing of E-tender.

DSC for applying Import Export Code (IEC).

DSC for filing VAT return.

DSC for GST registration.

DSC for secure email and web-based transactions, or to identify other participants of web-based transactions.

DSC to access membership-based websites automatically without entering a username and password etc.